διόρθωσιν (diorthosin)

διόρθωσιν is an Ancient Greek form of διόρθωσις, meaning “correction, improvement”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 50 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.45: … ν δέ φασιν εἶναι τὴν περὶ τῶν συλλογισμῶν θεωρίαν· τὸ γὰρ ἀποδεικτικὸν ἐμφαίνειν, ὅπερ συμβάλλεσθαι πολὺ πρὸς διόρθωσιν τῶν δογμάτων, καὶ τάξιν καὶ μνήμην τὸ ἐπιστατικὸν κατάλημμα ἐμφαίνειν. Εἶναι δὲ τὸν λόγον αὐτὸν σύστημα ἐκ λη …

Strabo, Geography 1.4.1: ̔η μὲν οὖν πρώτη διέξοδος αὐτῷ τῶν ὑπομνημάτων τοιαύτη. ἐν δὲ τῇ δευτέρᾳ πειρᾶται διόρθωσίν τινα ποιεῖσθαι τῆς γεωγραφίας καὶ τὰς ἑαυτοῦ λέγει ὑπολήψεις, πρὸς ἃς πάλιν εἰ ἔστι τις ἐπανόρθωσις, πειρατέο …

All forms of διόρθωσις (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.